 | North American review - 1896 - 818 pages
...tariff question pre-eminence, but when the Democratic, Populist, and Silver parties agreed in declaring for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the present legal ratio of 16 to 1, without waiting for the aid or consent of any other nation, the Republicans... | |
 | Bible - 1896 - 806 pages
...the American Republic. The surest and quickest way to destroy that confidence is to determine upon the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 1 6 to I. A boy asked the doctor how to distinguish a toadstool from a mushroom; he replied; "Eat it;... | |
 | Albert Shaw - Literature - 1896 - 814 pages
...and afterward submitted to the German Silver Commission of 1894. This bill provides for the eventual unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 1 to 15%, the coinage of silver to be gratuitous, that of gold to be subject to a coinage duty. The law... | |
 | Railroads - 1893 - 404 pages
...unwise and declare that the land is the equal and unalienable inheritage ol all the people. 2. We demand the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1, and that the government issue direct to the people without the intervention of banks, a sufficient... | |
 | Campaign literature - 1894 - 342 pages
...means of taking care of and distributing money. Many of the 368 —Hon. Thos. B. Reed, Maine. POPUMST PARTY. (Continued.) utterances under this head are...other security, at two per cent, interest per annum. 6. Like other platforms, there are declarations concerning current temporary questions, and which cannot... | |
 | Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1894 - 940 pages
...the House and Senate a majority of the party have been recorded not only in favor of bimetallism, but for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to 1. " The last platform pledges us to the use of both metals as standard money and to the free... | |
 | United States - 1895 - 590 pages
...metallic money is created by law. — Henri Cernuschi. Maintain the value of silver as well as gold. The free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of sixteen to one by a nation like onrs, whose shops and factories turn out over one-third of all the... | |
 | Richard Lee Metcalfe - Biography & Autobiography - 1896 - 508 pages
...the House and Senate a majority of the party have been recorded not only in favor of bimetallism, but for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of 16 to I. " The last platform pledges us to the use of both metals as standard money and to the free... | |
 | Democratic Party. National Committee, 1896-1900 - Campaign literatur - 1896 - 396 pages
...Coinage Laws of the United States, page 4. 1797 to I8O1— John Adams, President. The law provided for the free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ralio of 15 to 1. Hamilton, in his report to Congress, 1791, recommended the uso of both metals, and... | |
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The platform itself was all they wished, declaring for free and unlimited coinage of gold and silver at the ratio of sixteen to one. 
